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I'm playing with the Linux terminal and I have to do a exercise which states that I have to find inside a file for any line that contains at least an a, b and c, it doesn't matter it the lane has 2 a, ...

I need a script, that will run in terminal (under X11), and wait for a keyboard shortcut (happening anywhere in the desktop environment), once that shortcut (or key press sequence) happens, it will ...

I used to have a custom .XCompose, I removed it to possibly eliminate the cause. Unfortunately, the problem persists - I can't create an accented Cyrillic character, such as the ones here [1]. Simply ...

I've been given a mess of applications that all touch various common files and data sources. (Retail IT environment so lots of generic sources of data that gets sliced and diced into various ways and ...

I set my displays to sleep with xset dpms force off after locking the screen with kscreenlock. This is great, the displays wake up when the mouse is moved (by me, air, the cat). I'd like to set it in ...

When entering long queries into the command-line psql, my terminal[1] is not wrapping the input line correctly. Additional charactes wrap back to the left of the screen, but on the same line as the ...

I am writing a bash script to perform some analysis using the program ROOT. I want to run some initial command to load the result of the analysis, then continue using ROOT interactively.
The analysis ...

I have a bash script that is reading quite a bit of data /dev/random. I need the user to type randomly to seed the random daemon. However once the script completes everything typed will get dumped to ...

I'm fairly new to OpenWRT and Linux in general so please bare with me.
I'm trying to print the button presses from a playstation gamepad to the console on an Arduino Yun which has OpenWRT. I've used ...

I'm trying to read from a second keyboard whose inputs can be read from /dev/inputs/eventX, but I get rubbish and not the character expected.
I'm accessing my target by using Putty. I can connect to ...

I need to record every keystroke and store in a file in the user directory ~, when using my account, I am not sudoer and I cannot install programs (like logKeys) in any way. How could I do so using ...

I'm trying to have my Raspberry Pi function as a GUIless music player. I've got Arch Linux installed, and use it through ssh. I've got also an IR receiver dongle, and I'm planning to use it to control ...

An external USB keypad I'd like to use gets recognised as a USB HID device, but it is not functional when Linux is booted. It does work when plugged into a Windows desktop and it does work while in ...

I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 with Ubuntu 13.10 Installed. The device has a "Toggle TouchPad" button on the keyboard (F5). The keyboard's F* buttons are reversed (so to get F5, I need to press Fn + ...

I've just started using tmux recently, and have run into this problem a few times.
Whatever I type on the command line, is hidden from view until I press enter and it is executed. I don't know how I ...

I'm using an Raspberry Pi in combination with Chromium (kiosk mode) to show up some stats. The Pi doesn't have an connected keyboard so I searched for a solution to send keystrokes from the terminal ...

I was very happily using VOIP SIP with Ubuntu 10.04.
Since I upgraded to 12.04, not only has Ekiga become very buggy and inconvenient,
but, the subject matter of this question: the microphone of my ...

We need to put out a web browser to a public place to show informations. I need to lock down all the input interfaces via software methods. So ex.: if someone plugs a USB keyboard to the machine it ...

I just got a Wacom graphics tablet, plugged it in, installed the drivers and it mostly works. However xsetwacom and the KDE tablet settings module don't recognize it. Upon inspection of Xorg.0.log I ...

I have finally managed to boil down a problem I have been struggling with for a few weeks. I use SSH with "authorized keys" to run commands remotely. All is fine except when I do it in a while loop. ...

Is there any way to read raw text from stdin before it is expanded or before the shell does anything to it? Say I wanted to run a script where a user enters a string which is then printed out, how can ...

I would like to be able to apply the same custom key bindings and shortcuts I use on my text editors to my entire desktop environment.
I want to basically remap my keyboard system-wide, not just in ...